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    Posted 5 years ago

    vintagelamp
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    ARTIST: Georges Alexandre Eveillard (1879-1965) French
    TITLE: "Portrait Of A Gentleman"
    SIGNED: lower left and dated 1913
    MEDIUM: oil on panel
    SIZE: 37cm x 32cm framed
    From the internet:
    Eveillard was born in Nantes and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes in Paris in the early 20th Century. Eveillard was director of the Ecole Des Beaux Arts and a conservator at the museum in the town of St-Nazaire. He won numerous gold medals for his paintings including The Ecole Des Beaux Arts Rouen and at Nantes and also the The Ecole Batignolles De Paris and at the art school in Montparnasse Paris. He was also a commended war artist between 1914-1918.

    Georges Eveillard
    Birth
    1879
    Nantes, Departement de la Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France
    Death
    1965 (aged 85–86)
    Burial
    Cimetière Miséricorde
    Nantes, Department de la Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France

    More from the internet with photo #2:
    Eveillard Georges Alexandre; painter and drawing teacher in Saint-Nazaire. We have very little information about it; The man was discreet.
    Mr. Lamoureux, merchant and art enthusiast, created in 1912 the Artistic Group to bring together art lovers on Saint-Nazaire and organize exhibitions.
    At the beginning of the war, he met Mr. Georges Éveillard, mobilized in Saint-Nazaire and the latter agreed to lend his assistance to set up drawing courses.
    They started in 1915 and were completely free. They took place at the college of Young Girls and were at the origin of the drawing courses of the Artistic Group of Saint-Nazaire. M. Éveillard became its director, and under his skilful direction they were very successful. In 1926, they were taken over by the municipality. M. Éveillard was appointed director of the drawing school.
    Officer of Public Instruction in 1923.
    Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1936.
    The last photo was found online and the man on the left could be the artist. The following accompanied the photo:
    These are places, men and women of Nantes, whose memory is lost and fades over the years. On the right, the man who draws is named Victor Le Jallé (1875-1956), architect, rue Gresset in Nantes, grandfather of the Nantaise Annie Le Jallé Allain to whom this superb image belongs. In this photograph he noted "With my dear friend, my favorite painter". There is no name. A reader, Christophe Durand, believes that it could be the Nantes impressionist painter Georges Eveillard (1879-1965), former director of the School of Fine Arts and curator of the city museum of St-Nazaire. Who will confirm this to us?

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    Comments

    1. kyratango kyratango, 5 years ago
      Nice portrait!
      Lovely smiling eyes and superb kind of "à l'impériale" moustache with barb!
    2. vintagelamp vintagelamp, 5 years ago
      kyra,
      Glad that you love this! I Loved the comment! He is imperial looking over all.
    3. Daisy1000 Daisy1000, 5 years ago
      This is an unexpected oil on panel. It is interesting that Eveillard was creating and successfully showing such work in a 1913 Paris embracing Picasso & Braque ... and revelling in the shock of colours and shapes that marked the height of Analytic Cubism.

      There is a humanity in the brutal honesty of this portrait, a humanity that asks to be known; a humanity that analytic cubism never achieved (nor attempted). Yet, I must say that this totally honest and self-revealimg portrait makes me so sad that I want to cry.

      Thank you for the post.
    4. vintagelamp vintagelamp, 5 years ago
      Daisy1000,
      Thank you! The last few sentences sum up my emotional response to this painting perfectly. I was drawn to this image for that reason.

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